Knitted coat.



Patented Aug. 1, 1911.

2 SHEETS-SHEET 1.

N. SCHWARTZ.

v KNITTED GOAT.

APPLIOATION FILED 001.21, 1909.

Patented Aug. 1,1911.

2 SHEET8-SHEEI 2.

NATHAN SCHWARTZ, F MILFORD, ILLINOIS.

KNITTED COAT.

Specification offI-etters Patent.

Application filed (Dctober 21', 1909. Serial No..523,788.

To all whomitmay concern;

Be it knownthat. l, NATHAN SCHWARTZ, a citizenof the United- States, and aresident of Milford, in the county of Iroquois and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements-in.Knitted Coats; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and-exact description thereof, reference being had tothe accompanying drawings, and to the letters of reference markedthereon, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to a. novel coat or like garment made from almittedfabric.

The object. of-the invention is to produce a coat-like garment from a knitted fabric which is neat: and attractive in appearance, and is warm and durableand isa practicable garment. for use by automobilista golf players and like outdoor uses.

The-inventlon consists in the matters hereinafter. set. forth, and. more particularly pointed out in the appended. claim.

A: garment made. in. accordance with my invention is made of. a number of pieces to produce the difi'erent parts of the garment, as the body, the arms and other auxiliary or ornamentalparts, and is made in such a way as to closely imitate a-one piece knittedgarment having its exterior surface finished with a long nap which conceals the texture of the knitted fabric and also almost wholly obliterates the seams or stitches by which the parts or pieces of the garment are joined.

In. making a coat or like garment in accordance with my novel invention that is composed of a number of separately formed and joined pieces, I proceed generally. as follows: The required number of pleces to make up the garment may be formed in any suitable manner, as for instance, they may be cut from astock of flat-knitted fabric in the condition in which the knitted. fabric leaves the knitting machine, or the parts thereof may be knitted to proper form in the first instance. The several pieces of the garment, such as the sections of the garment body, the sleeves, the collar,.the cudsof the sleeves, the pockets and the like, are shaped and sewed together in accordance with a pattern to produce a garment ofconsiderably larger size than the ultimate size of the garment desired. After the garment has thus been made, it is submitted to a fulling process by which the fabric is shrunk and is thickened to an extent corresponding to its shrinkage, all parts or members of the garment being uniformly fulled, both in the main or body portions thereof and at the margins at which the separate pieces are joined by. seams with the other pieces of the garment. After the garment has been thus fulled and dried, the exterior surface of the garment, made up of the pieces referred to, is subjected to a combing or fleecing operation to bring out on-the exterior surface thereof the fibers of the fabric to form a long nap which produces an exterior surface of the fabric that has the appearance of a garment made from a natural long fiber fabric, such as Angora wool ,or closely approaching a natural fur finish and this nap has the eflect to obliterate the texture of the knitted fabric and to substantially conceal the seams by which the several parts of the garment may be joined together. Parts or the whole of thefessential members of the garment may be knitted in a single piece when practical and the fabric garment thus made up thereafter fulled and combed or fleeced as described.

in the drawings is shown a garment made up of a number of separate pieces which may be knitted in full form fashion or may be cut from flat knitted fabric stock.

In the drawings, Figure 1- illustrates a coat-like garment made up from the required number of pieces of untreated knitted fabric, showing both the exterior and interior surfaces of the garment, and showing the several seams by which the pieces "are sewed or joined together. Fig. 2 illustrates the arment after it has been submitted to a fulling operation. Fig. 3 illustrates the garment. on a form onwhich it is dried after the fulling operation. Figs. 4, 5 and 6 illustrate surface details of the fabric, Fig. 4 showing the unfulled knitted fabric as it leaves the knitting, machine; Fig. 5 showing the fabric after it hasbeen. fulled, and Fig. 6 showing the-completed fabric after it has, been fulled and combed or fleeced on its exterior surface to produce the exterior nap.

The garmentshown in the drawings is a coat, and as shown is designed more especially for ladies use. It embraces a body portion ill-and sleeves 11, 11 attached to the shoulders of the body portion at the arm openings thereof by the seams in a familiar manner. The body portion of the garment is made, principally. of three parts or sec- Patented Aug. it, rear.

tions, to wit, a central or back portion 12, and two side'portions '14:, 14. The sleeves 11 may be made up from flat knitted stock, the pieces being shaped and stitched together along the seams 15 in the usual manner to form 'the sleeves and to fit the arm openings in the body portion. The said sleeves are finished at their ends with cufis 16, shown as made of ribbed knitted fabric, and the lower margin of the body of the coat or garment is finished with a border strip 17 made also of ribbed material. To the front margins of the side pieces of the coat body are attached strips 18, 18 which are doubled upon them selves so as to be made of such thickness as to-receive the button holes 19 and the buttons 20,, or other suitable fastening devices by which the garment is fastened or closed in front. The said strips 18 are continued upwardly around the neck portion of the garment to constitute a flat lying collar 21.

- The side .pieces of the body portion are cut body pieces 12 and 14 of the garment may be out to form pocket holes, to the margins of which are attached pockets 22, which latter may also be made up of the fiat knitted stock and arranged to lie inside the garment. The

joined together by a welt seam 23 lying on the inner side of the garment, as indicated in Fig. 2. The sleevesil, the cuffs 16, the border strip 17, are preferably attached to the parts which carry the same by means of stitches indicated by 24 in the various arts of the 1 garment shown in Fig. 1. In Figs. 2 and 3 the latter stitches are shown as almost wholly obliterated, as in the garment when made'up.

-In making a multi-piece coat or like garment in accordance with my invention, I first form the several pieces, constituting the different parts of the garment referred to, either cutting them from flat knitted fabric inthe condition which it leaves the loom, or knitting the pieces properly fashioned to enter the construction of the" coat. The texture of the fabric may be like that illustrated in Fig. 4. Said pieces are then stitched together to produce the garment shown in Fig. 1. The size of the garment thus produced 'is considerably larger than I t e ultimate size desired. For instance if it be desired to make a'coat-of saythirty-six inch bust measure, the garment roduced from the knitted and untreated fa ric will be in the neighborhood of forty-four inch bustmeasure and the other dimensions of the garment will be correspondingly larger than the ultimate or finished garment. Thereafter the garment thus made up is submitted to a fulling operation orprocess of any approved character, and while yet damp it is placed over a form 25. The garment dries on this form and said form gives to the garment the desired size or dimensions in the body and arm portions, and molds or When the fabric of the garment has dried and the garment receives its final form, the exterior surface thereof issubmitted to a fleecing or combing operation, such as to bring out on the exterior surface the fibers of the wool, or other material'from which the fabric is made, the combing or fleecing operation continuing until a thick,'heavy, long fiber nap has been brought'out-on the exteriorj surface of the fabric, as illustrated in detail more clearly in Fig. 6.

The described mode of making the garment has a number of advantages, some of which may be enumerated as follows: The several pieces which go to make up the garment may be accurately fitted and stitched together in the making of the coat, inasmuch as the fabric is at this time ofuniform texture and weight. Furthermore, in the fulling operation all of the several united pieces are'submitted to a uniform fulling treat-ment so that the pieces of the garment at the seams or stitches which join the same are perfectly matched and there is no liability of the marparts at the seams. A still further advan-- tage of making up the arment from pieces of knitted stock and a terward falling the completed garment, is that thereby the seams and stitches by which the several parts are joined are less noticeable and practically complete obliteration of the seams becomes effective after the fleecing or combing operation to produce the long exterior nap surface of the fabric. As a matter of fact in the garment which I have made in accordance with m invention the bottom border and the cu s appear to be parts of the garment which are knitted thereto as a finished edge rather than parts thereto attached. A characteristic of the knitted garment described is that it is thick and of compact texture, and well capable of resisting cold winds, while, at the same time it is soft, pliable and elastic and makes a very com fortable wearing and agreeable garment.

Certain of the above mentioned advantag'cs appear if the entire process, as above outlined, be not fully carried out, as for instance, instead of making the sleeves or cufi's or even the pockets from flat st0ck,'theyma-y be knitted in or otherwise applied to the garment. An advantage follows however in making the pieces principally from flat knitted stock as thereby, the knitting machinery to produce the stock is less complicated and expensive.

1 claim as my invention:

As an article of manufacture, a coat composed of separate pieces of knitted fabric joined together by stitching, the entire garment including the seams being uniformly fulled and having the outer surface thereof 15 fieeced for the purpose of obliterating the seams and the surface texture of the fabric,

and to afford an exterior finish to the garment. a

In testimony, that I claim the foregoing 20 as my invention I aflix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses, this 16th day of October A. D. 1909.

NATHAN SCHWARTZ.

Witnesses:

W. L. HALL, G. R. WILKINS. 

